Credit Suisse Building - 24th Street & Madison Avenue

TURKISH ROCK GROUP DUMAN'S CONCERT

Rock Müziği' gruplarından Duman, ABD konserler serisinin ikincisini New York'ta düzenlenecek olan konserle gerçekleştiriyor.Konser biletleri Blender Theatre at Gramercy bilet gişesinden ve TicketMaster web sitesinden temin edilebiliyor.
Tarih: 27 Nisan 2008 Pazar

Yer : Blender Theatre at Gramercy , 127 East 23rd Street New York, NY

TURKISH ROCK GROUP DUMAN WILL BE IN CONCERT ON SUNDAY 27 APRIL 2008 @ Blender Theatre at Gramercy , 127 East 23rd Street New York, NY

Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Bridge

Brooklyn Flea will be opened this sunday

from their website:

Brooklyn Flea will take place every Sunday from 10am to 5pm—rain or shine—starting April 6, 2008, at Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, on Lafayette Ave. between Clermont and Vanderbilt Ave. The Flea will feature 200 vendors of vintage furniture, clothing and antiques alongside new designs by local makers of everything from jewelry to textiles.

Just a quick note to check the weekend subway changes on the A/C and G lines this weekend at the MTA site before heading out to Fort Greene. Seems like the F is running on the A/C line from Hoyt-Schermerhorn to the Flea (use the Lafayette Ave. stop, 5 minutes away), and buses are replacing the F/G from Bergen St. to 7th Avenue. The G is stopping normally at Clinton-Washington Ave., which is literally a block from the Flea (use Clinton Ave. exit).

Your other subway option is any train that goes to Atlantic Ave.-Pacific St., which is at the intersection of 4th Avenue and Flatbush Avenue. The 2/3, 4/5, B/D, M/N/Q/R and Long Island Railroad all stop there--the Flea is a lovely 10-15 minute stroll from there.

one day...

I wish,
people will come and see my photos in a place like this.

PS: The photo within the photo is mine, thanks to technologic advancement in digital photography, I was able to use an online tool to frame my photo and put two people looking at it in a museum setting.

Tonight Meet Richard Price at Upstairs @ Barnes and Noble

Richard Price: Lush Life
April 03, 20087:00 PM

Location Barnes & Noble Booksellers Union Square

Union Square 33 East 17th StreetNew York, NY 10003 212-253-0810

AT Offline Design Meetup: Tonight at 6:30!

• What: AT Offline Design Meetup
• Members: 559•

RSVP for Tonight: 82 yes, 21 maybe•

When: 6:30-8:30pm, Thursday, April 3rd

Where: DWR SoHo, 142 Wooster St. (Prince/Houston)

Tonight we start at 7pm sharp, so please be on time. This month we're all about Small Space Design: Problems & Solutions and we've got some great guests lined up from within and without our group...

Finally Murakami is coming to Brooklyn!

From the Brooklyn Museum's website :

April 5–July 13, 2008

Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing and Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Gallery, 4th and 5th Floors

The most comprehensive retrospective to date of the work of internationally acclaimed Japanese artist Takashi Murakami includes more than ninety works in various media that span the artist’s entire career, installed in more than 18,500 square feet of gallery space.

Born in Tokyo in 1962, Murakami is one of the most influential and acclaimed artists to have emerged from Asia in the late twentieth century, creating a wide-ranging body of work that consciously bridges fine art, design, animation, fashion, and popular culture. He received a Ph.D. from the prestigious Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, where he was trained in the school of traditional Japanese painting known as Nihonga, a nineteenth-century mixture of Western and Eastern styles. However, the prevailing popularity of anime (animation) and manga (comic books) directed his interest toward the art of animation because, as he has said, “it was more representative of modern day Japanese life.” American popular culture in the form of animation, comics, and fashion are among the influences on his work, which includes painting, sculpture, installation, and animation, as well as a wide range of collectibles, multiples, and commercial products.

The exhibition © MURAKAMI explores the self-reflexive nature of Murakami’s oeuvre by focusing on earlier work produced between 1992 and 2000 in which the artist attempts to explore his own reality through an investigation of branding and identity, as well as through self-portraiture created since 2000. Two works examining these subjects were a part of a group show, My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, presented at the Brooklyn Museum in 2001.

Among the works included in this large-scale survey tracing the trajectory of Murakami’s artistic development are many of his acclaimed sculpture figures including the 23-foot-high Tongari-kun (2003–4); Miss Ko2 (1997), a long-legged waitress who has become one of the artist’s signature characters; and Hiropon (1997), a Japanese girl jumping a rope created by milk spurting from her gargantuan breasts. Among the paintings on view will be Tan Tan Bo (2001), as well as Tan Tan Bo Puking—a.k.a. Gero Tan (2002).

Tickets for © MURAKAMI are $10 for adults, $8 for older adults and students with valid ID; children under 12 are free. © MURAKAMI tickets include the cost of general admission and are available at the Brooklyn Museum Visitor Center for the day of purchase.

Tickets can also be purchased online.Become a Member to receive 2 free tickets; additional discounted tickets can be purchased by Members for $8.

This saturday > Party at Brooklyn Museum

At the Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturdays, thousands of visitors enjoy free programs of art and entertainment each month from 5–11 p.m. All evening long, the Museum Café serves a wide selection of sandwiches, salads, and beverages, and a cash bar offers wine and beer. Parking is a flat rate of $4 starting at 5 p.m.At the Brooklyn Museum's Target First Saturdays, thousands of visitors enjoy free programs of art and entertainment each month from 5–11 p.m. All evening long, the Museum Café serves a wide selection of sandwiches, salads, and beverages, and a cash bar offers wine and beer. Parking is a flat rate of $4 starting at 5 p.m.

9:00 p.m.–11:00 p.m.
Dance Party Martha A. and Robert S. Rubin Pavilion, 1st Floor
Japan's top DJ, Muro aka King of Diggin', spins his legendary mix of hip-hop, funk, and soul.

AN INNOCENT MAN IN GUANTANAMO

from NYPL's website:

AN INNOCENT MAN IN GUANTANAMO: Five Years of My Life

Murat Kurnaz

An evening with Baher Azmy, Bernhard Docke, Philippe Sands, Michael Ratner & James Yee with a reading by Wallace Shawn

Friday, April 4, 2008at 7:00 PM

South Court Auditorium

Humanities and Social Sciences Library

5th Avenue and 42nd Street (directions)

In October 2001, nineteen year old Murat Kurnaz, a Turkish citizen and legal resident of Germany, traveled to Pakistan to learn more about his Muslim faith. A few weeks later, on the day he was to return to Germany, Kurnaz was arrested at a police checkpoint without explanation. Kurnaz was then handed over to the U.S. military and transported to a U.S. military base in Afghanistan. After two months, Kurnaz was taken to Guantanamo and held prisoner for five years. Murat Kurnaz’ memoir, FIVE YEARS OF MY LIFE: An Innocent Man in Guantanamo, with an introduction by Patti Smith, is a powerful reminder that every day human lives are at stake.

During his imprisonment, Kurnaz suffered solitary confinement, sleep deprivation, physical abuse, and sexual humiliation. Despite his best efforts to communicate his innocence, Kurnaz was charged as an “enemy combatant” by a Combatant Status Review Tribunal in Guantanamo in September 2004. This evening will bring together the lawyers in Germany and the U.S. who fought for Murat’s release, an ex-Guantanamo chaplain who was accused of espionage and imprisoned, and Guantanamo experts. Together they will help us understand the political and legal context, give us the perspective from the “other side of the wire,” and deliver a picture of life in Guantanamo today.Wallace Shawn will read from Murat Kurnaz's memoir and take part in the discussion.

Wall paper anyone?

My favourite website AT just posted about a turkish company (Studio Nommo) located in Istanbul.

Check out AT website to see the original post or the company's website too see more of their work or if you are interested covering your walls with these beautiful wall papers.

Anadolu'dan Sesler Korosu

Date:Saturday, April 5, 2008
Time:7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location:New York Society for Ethical Culture Center (Central Park West)
Street:2 West 64th Street
City/Town:New York, NY

hurriyetusa.com'dan;

New York'ta Mahmut Çeliker yönetiminde Türk Sanat Müziği çalışmaları yapan "Anadolu'dan Sesler Korosu" 5 Nisan 2008 Cumartesi günü geliri Mehmetçik Vakfı'na bağışlanacak olan bir halk konseri verecektir.

New York Society for Ethical Culture'de gerçekleşecek konserin başlama saati ise 19.00. New York ve New Jersey'deki Türk marketlerinde biletlerinin satışı yapılan konserde New York'ta yaşayan tiyatrocular Uğur-İbo ikilisi bir komedi gösterisi sunacak, ayrıca halk oyunları gösterisi gerçekleştirilecek.Konserle ilgili olarak New York Türk Sanat Etkinlikleri’nden yaılan açıklamada, “New York ve çevresindeki Türkler ve Türk kültürünü tanımak isteyen insanlarla kültürümüzü yaşamak ve paylaşmak amacıyla biraraya geldik. New York Türk Sanat Etkinlikleri ekibi olarak, 1999 yılında başlayan koro çalışmalarımız, New York Türk Sanat Etkinlikleri’nin (NY Turkish Art Project) temelini oluşturuyor. Amatör bir ruhla yola çıkan ama profesyonel bir yaklaşımla çalışmalarını düzenli olarak sürdüren New York Türk Sanat Etkinlikleri, Anadolu’nun Sesi Korosu’nun yanısıra önümüzdeki dönemde çeşitli sanat dallarında da etkinliklerini sürdürmeyi hedeflemektedir “ denildi.Açıklamada ayrıca, “Daha önceki yıllarda New York Türkevi’nde her cumartesi günü eğitim veren Atatürk Okulu’nu destekleyen koromuzun tek amacı, kendi özüne, kültürüne, insanına faydalı olabilmenin yanısıra sizlere unutamayacağınız bir müzik ziyafeti ve sürprizlerle dolu bir program sunmaktır.” denildi.

Bilet temini için telefonlar: 718-830-3363 mrmahmut@hotmail.com

Can Yucel

The Wall of Love

Was it you or your loneliness

In the blind dark we opened bleary eyes

Last night's curses on our lips

We would frequent art-lesbian-lovers,

Galleries and public places

My daily care was to remove you into the midst of men

An ammoniac flower in your button hole

My loneliness my incontinent countess

The lower we sink the better

We loitered in the pubs at Kumkapğ

With beanstew, beer and wine before us

And police battalions behind us; in the mornings

My Guardian Saints would find my carcass in the gutters

Hot as the garbage-collecfors' hands,

With their hands I caressed you.

My loneliness my bristle-haired beauty,

The higher we stink the better

I looked in the sky a red flash a plane

Steel and stars and human beings galore

One night we leapt the Wall of love

Where I fell was so clear so open

You and the universe at my side.

Uncountable my deaths, their resurrections.

O loneliness my many songs

The more we can live without lies the better.

Can Yucel

Translated by Ruth Christie

Sevgi Duvarı

Sen miydin o yalnızlığım mıydı yoksa

Kör karanlıkta açardık paslı gözlerimizi

Dilimizde akşamdan kalma bir küfür

Salonlar piyasalar sanat sevicileri

Derdim günüm insan arasına çıkarmaktı seni

Yakanda bir amonyak çiçeği

Yalnızlığım benim sidikli kontesim

Ne kadar rezil olursak o kadar iyi

Kumkapı meyhanelerine dadandık

Önümüzde Altınbaş, Altın Zincir, fasulye pilakisi

Ardımızda görevliler, ekipler, Hızır Paşalar

Sabahları açıklarda bulurlardı leşimi

Öyle sıcaktı ki çöpcülerin elleri

Çöpcülerin elleriyle okşardım seni

Yalnızlığım benim süpürge saçlım

Ne kadar kötü kokarsak o kadar iyi

Baktım gökte bir kırmızı bir uçak

Bol çelik bol yıldız bol insan

Bir gece Sevgi Duvarını aştık

Dustuğum yer öyle açık seçik ki

Başucumda bi sen varsın bi de evren

Saymıyorum ölüp ölüp dirilttiklerimi

Yalnızlığım benim çoğul türkülerim

Ne kadar yalansız yaşarsak o kadar iyi

Can Yucel

N.B.: Please do not get me wrong, the weather is getting cold in New York these days and I could not resist to share some of my summer photos. (maybe it will warm up your days a little) The windy NY photos will follow up soon.

Lutfen yanlis anlama olmasin, bu gunlerde New York sogumaya basladi, bu yuzden yazin cektigim bazi resimleri paylasmadan duramadim (belki iciniz isinir bu sayede). Ruzgarli NY resimlerini pek yakinda yayinlayacagim.

Earth Hour Movie - Narrated by Jeremy Piven

From Earth Hour US:

On March 29, 2008 at 8 p.m., join millions of people around the world in making a statement about climate change by turning off your lights for Earth Hour, an event created by the World Wildlife Fund.

Earth Hour was created by WWF in Sydney, Australia in 2007, and in one year has grown from an event in one city to a global movement. In 2008, millions of people, businesses, governments and civic organizations in nearly 200 cities around the globe will turn out for Earth Hour. More than 100 cities across North America will participate, including the US flagships–Atlanta, Chicago, Phoenix and San Francisco and Ottawa, Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.

We invite everyone throughout North America and around the world to turn off the lights for an hour starting at 8 p.m. (your own local time)–whether at home or at work, with friends and family or solo, in a big city or a small town.

What will you do when the lights are off? We have lots of ideas.

Join people all around the world in showing that you care about our planet and want to play a part in helping to fight climate change. Don’t forget to sign up and let us know you want to join Earth Hour.

One hour, America. Earth Hour. Turn out for Earth Hour!

I have visitors

The below is one of the chain emails you receive from your friends but I just could not pass it without posting here, first. For some reason it touched me because one of my colleague from work always blamed me for not having the time for a cup of coffee when asked (coming with hundreds of excuses about deadline, projects, exams etc).

This one is for you Russ for always showing me that in fact jar is not always full and there is always time for a cup of coffee.

Thanks,

NYM

When things in your lives seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day are not enough, remember the mayonnaise jar and the 2 cups of coffee.

A professor stood before his philosophy class and had some items in front of him. When the class began, he wordlessly picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with golf balls. He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

The professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles rolled into the open areas between the golf balls. He then asked the students again if the jar was full. They agreed it was.

The professor next picked up a box of sand and poured it into the jar. Of course, the sand filled up everything else. He asked once more if the jar was full. The students responded with an unanimous "yes."

The professor then produced two cups of coffee from under the table and poured the entire contents into the jar effectively filling the empty space between the sand. The students laughed."Now," said the professor as the laughter subsided,

"I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life.

The golf balls are the important things--your family, your children, your health, your friends and your favorite passions--and if everything else was lost and only they remained, your life would still be full.

The pebbles are the other things that matter like your job, your house and your car.

The sand is everything else--the small stuff. "If you put the sand into the jar first," he continued, "there is no room for the pebbles or the golf balls.

The same goes for life. If you spend all your time and energy on the small stuff you will never have room for the things that are important to you.

"Pay attention to the things that are critical to your happiness. Play with your children. Take time to get medical checkups. Take your spouse out to dinner. Play another 18. There will always be time to clean the house and fix the disposal. Take care of the golf balls first--the things that really matter. Set your priorities. The rest is just sand."

One of the students raised her hand and inquired what the coffee represented. The professor smiled. "I'm glad you asked.It just goes to show you that no matter how full your life may seem, there's always room for a couple of cups of coffee with a friend."

We are no angels!

I am in the library with Jhoana and we are studying internal controls for our Audit exam on Tuesday. While I was doing an online research choosing which control to test and their reliability of controls, I come across this quote by James Madison and loved it. Here it goes;

"If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary."
James Madison, The Federalist Papers, No. 51, 1788

PS: I am going to be very busy for next couple weeks, as I am trying to graduate in May and there might be some delays in posting, so my apologies in advance.

Read "Snow" of Orhan Pamuk, while drinking Turkish coffee

Date : Monday, March 24, 2008 - 6:30 pm - 8:30 pm

Venue: Turkish Cultural Center

Book Discussion Group of the Turkish Cultural Center is open to the public (once a month).

Please register by sending an email to: bookclub@turkishculturalcenter.com

For info please call Muhterem Taskent at 212 696 1060

Turkish Coffee will be Served

Admission Free

Limited seats

For address : Please log on to their website.

Kitap kampanyasi

I am in L.O.V.E.!

I am in love these days with the music of Michael Bublé. Ever since I heard him with Tony Bennett on Channel 13, I cannot get his voice out of my mind.

How I wish to see him in NY but I just checked his tour schedule and unfortunately he is not coming to big apple anytime soon :-(

Ladies and Gentleman, please welcome Mr. Bublé and make sure to check out his upcoming album in his YouTube page.

And in this crazy life, and through these crazy times
It's you, it's you, You make me sing.
You're every line, you're every word, you're everything.
You're every song, and I sing along.
'Cause you're my everything.

Once upon a time - Bir zamanlar..

Once upon a time- Bir zamanlar

We moved - Tasindik!

I will no longer have this amazing view of Central Park from my office window.

Artik Central Park'in bu muhtesem goruntusu ofis penceremden gozukmeyecek.

NYM

Rumi

Rumi on Oneness

Not Christian or Jew or Muslim, not Hindu, Buddhist, sufi, or zen.
Not any religion or cultural system.
I am not from the East or the West, not out of the ocean
or up from the ground, not natural or ethereal, not composed of elements at all.
I do not exist, am not an entity in this world or the next, did not descend from Adam and Eve or any origin story.

My place is placeless,
a trace of the traceless.
Neither body or soul.
I belong to the beloved,
have seen the two worlds as one and that one call to and know,
first,
last,
outer,
inner,
only that breath breathing human being.

Mevlana Jelaluddin RUMI

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Ne hristiyan, ne yahudi, ne hindu, ne budist, ne zen, ne de sufiyim.
Hiçbir din ya da kültür düzenine ait değilim.
Ne doğu, ne batıdan geldim, ne deniz, ne de yerden çıktım.
Ne tabii, ne havai, ne de çeşitli maddelerden oluştum.
Ben yokum.
Ne bu dünyada varım, ne de öteki dünyada.
Ne Ademdan, ne Havvadan, ne de başka bir başlangıç masalından çıktım.

Yerim yersiz, izim izsiz.
Ne vücut ne de ruhum.
Sevgiliye aitim.
İki dünyayı bir gördüm,
Bir onu çağırdım, bir onu bildim.
Önce,
sonda,
dışta,
içte,
Sadece o, nefes alan,
Ve nefes veren İnsanoğluyum.

Mevlana Celaleddini Rumi